thanks i'll try it

I did a quick edit on my previous post after you posted, I don't believe I changed much besides adding a little bit, but just incase.

can you suggest a cheap wireless router?

I found this on Nintendos site and if you click on the special note at the bottom of the text then the info is quite useful.


http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/sys...compatible.jsp

I've wireless connected but how do I connect with other Wii players outside the home.

What are the risks in turning your firewall off? Am I being exposed to hackers?

For that moment, if you DO NOT have MAC filtering enabled, yes you are. But we are only doing this for a minute to find out the answer, you can turn it back on after checking. There are ways to allow the connection if this is the problem.

network magic for the Pc works Wonders just dont lock it until u have the Wii Add'd To The List!

Having problems connecting via belkin wireless router. Belkin Technical support say I need to get ports from WII. Any ideas????

You should not need to open any ports to get it to work.
Some Belkin routers like Belkin FSD6231-4 & Belkin FSD7230 have reported to have problems.

Try updating the routers firmware. You can also try disabling security and check if you get connection then
renabling security.

Check this page for router specific instructions: http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/rou...outerIndex.jsp

Hope this helps.

This evening I encountered something quite strange. I unplugged my Linksys Wireless LAN USB adapter early today after I powered Wii down. I forgot that I unplugged the device. Powered up my Will to play Mario Kart on WFC. Strangely, it connected to the servers and I raced both regionally and worldwide. I was connected for a solid 2 hours before I received a connection error. I walk over to the Wii and realize that the LAN adapter was unplugged and laying next to it. Can anyone explain this phenomena?

Why are you using a wireless adapter? The Wii is wifi ready right out of the box.

i have a linksys wireless router but can't connect to the internet. I get error code 51331 saying unable to connect to internet

Yes, this is probably easily explained. . .

The Wii's default BIOS settings are configured so that if there is no adapter plugged in, it will look for available wireless connections.

Upon disconnecting your adapter, the Wii simply "jumped on" one of your neighbor's routers so that it could connect to the internet.

Also, not sure if this will be of interest to anyone, but I'll type it here in case anyone is having a similar problem:

I have the new Linksys WRT160N Wireless-N Router.

I have 5 computers on my network, plus My Wii, and My son's Nintendo DS.

Recently I upgraded one of my desktop machines to use a new Wireless-N PCI card adapter, and also upgraded my laptop to use a Wireless-N PCMCIA card.

My router was set to assign the Wide Channel and Standard Channel automatically, depending upon the connection, and the wireless mode was set to "Mixed" since I have multiple devices on my network that use Wireless-G and Wireless B devices to connect to the router.

For those of you who want to know, the Wii and Nintendo DS both use Wireless-G connections to connect to your router.

Well, once I connected my laptop and desktop machines, using the new Wireless-N technology, here's what happened:

My Laptop and Desktop machines both connected at the incredible speeds of 300MBPS!!

However, this caused the connection to my some of the other computers on the network to slow down to almost a crawl, and also made it so that my Wii, and my son's DS were just as slow connecting.

As it turns out, the Wide Channel (40Mhz) is only efficient for Wireless-N connections, and will slow the other connections down to a crawl -- technically this shouldn't happen because the new Wireless-N router and access points have a standard channel also, but out of the box, with the default settings, they will work more efficiently with other Wireless-N devices. If you don't have any other Wireless-N devices on your network, your router will work fine with the default settings, as it will use the standard channel (20Mhz) to allow your computers/Wii/DS to connect on.

The fix to this problem is to manually set your router to use the Standard Channel (20Mhz), as this will allow ALL your devices to connect (including the Wireless-N devices you may have, although not as fast as 300MBPS. They will likely connect at a much slower rate of 100 - 150MBPS) and to use your connection just as fast with no trouble at all.

Just my three cents.

Hi everybody,

I don't have wireless. I have a DSL modem that connects through password each time. I read Nintendo's website and it said that his might not work with thier LAN Adapter. Is this true?

If so, what options do I have to go online apart from wireless? I heard about the USB WiFi connector but read on wikipedia that it is discontinued. is this true? Sorry for all the questions but i am a beginner to this sort of stuff and my parents don't know much lol. thank you!

hello. i keep trying to connect my wii to the internet. i used to have it connected last summer but i got a new router. my error code that comes up is 52130. i use a wireless connection. and when i put in the manual settings do u put the router LAN settings or the router status settings? cuz they both have ip addresses and all that stuff.

He most likely was still connected to his own signal since he said he only disconnected the USB adapter from the Wii, just to clear up any misconceptions he may have about robbing his neighbor's signal. Doesn't the Wii tell you to make a connection if one isn't found? Chances are all the IP information stayed the same or was set to auto for the connection, and the Wii just connected, sans the adapter.

I'll start from the page after security when doing the manual setup.

Auto-Obtain IP Address:
-Click No/Advanced Settings
-IP Address- Any IP address in your LAN that you would like the Wii to have.
-Subnet Mask- If you never changed it in your router, this value will be 255.255.255.0
-Default Router- The IP of your router. (This value equals the default gateway when looking at ipconfig on your computer.)

Auto-Obtain DNS:
-Click No/advanced Settings
-Primary DNS- This will be the IP of your router again.
-Secondary DNS- Leave blank.

Proxy Server:
-Keep Don't Use, unless of course you do.

MTU Value:
-If you never changed in your router, this value will be 1500.

Hope this helps

I think it will work because I use a DSL modem for my lan adapter.